>From: "Eric J. Pierce" <epierce@rcn.com>
>Subject: BVRG March 2002 Meeting: Distibuted Virtual Reality, Tiled Walls 
>and Video Bridging




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>                   THE BOSTON VIRTUAL REALITY GROUP
>
>                              PRESENTS
>
>      Distibuted Virtual Reality, Tiled Walls and Video Bridging
>
>                                WITH
>
>                           Glenn Bresnahan
>                          Boston University
>
>                       Thursday, March 28, 2002
>
>                                7:00 PM
>
>                               ROOM B17
>                    OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
>                    ACCESS GRID CONFERENCE FACILITY
>                           BOSTON UNIVERSITY
>                         BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
>________________________________________________________________
>
>
>Join the Boston Virtual Reality Group and Glenn Bresnahan for an
>informal presentation and demonstration of some of the VR and display
>technologies being developed and deployed by Boston University's
>Scientific Computing and Visualization group. The presentation will
>discuss the DAFFIE (Distributed Applications Framework For Immersive
>Environments) software package and some recent experiments in bridging
>between distributed virtual environments and multicast based video
>conferencing systems. The presentation will be followed by an
>Immersadesk demonstration of "Spirited Ruins", DAFFIE-based VR world,
>and a demonstration of a prototype Linux-based, stereoscopic, tiled
>display wall.
>
>Bresnahan is Director of the Scientific Computing and Visualization
>group at Boston University. His research interests are in grid
>and distributed computing, scientific visualization, and
>virtual reality. He is one of the coauthors of DAFFIE.
>
>
>MEETING DETAILS:
>---------------
>
>When:
>           Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 7:00 PM
>
>Location:
>           Boston University
>           Office of Information Technology
>           Access Grid Conference Facility
>           Room B17
>           111 Cummington Street,
>           Boston, MA 02215
>
>
>===========================================================================
>
>Directions to Meeting:
>
>The Access Grid Conference Facility is located in the Office of
>Information Technology, at 111 Cummington Street, room B17 (in the
>basement near the Personal Computing Support Center). A campus
>map can be found at http://www.bu.edu/maps/. 111 Cummington Street
>is the building labelled #24. Detailed directions can be found at
>http://scv.bu.edu/SCV/MISC/directions.html
>
>Parking is extremely limited in this area. The Facility is located near the
>"BU Central" stop on the MBTA "B" Green line train. Parking is available
>for $12.00/day at #23 on the Campus  Map.
>
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>                The Boston Virtual Reality Group (BVRG)
>(Virtual Environments, Augmented Reality and Ubiquitous Computing)
>
>The BVRG is a non-profit group whose members have a collective interest
>Virtual Environments, Augmented Reality and Smart Environments/Ubiquitous
>Computing. The group's purpose is to explore the social implications and
>technical issues that arise from building such systems. Our mission is to
>provide a forum for bring together industry experts, academic and commercial
>researchers, artists, hackers and enthusiasts/potential users. If you have a
>general interest, a passion for this domain or want to code, paint and build
>such systems, think BVRG.
>
>The BVRG was originally established in 1992 as the Boston Computer Society's
>Virtual Reality Group. Aside from many speakers over the years, the group
>has
>built several fully immersive virtual environments for SIGGRAPH dating back
>to 1993.
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